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The Rise of Renewable Energy

Paul Krugman · 26 Oct 2025 · paulkrugman.substack.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    The hard-headed realists who wrote America's 2001 energy policy expected renewables to stay trivial, and were wrong by an enormous margin.

    Their wordsBut politics aside, what’s notable about that 2001 report, put together by men who regarded themselves as hard-headed realists, is that it envisaged an energy future reliant almost entirely on fossil fuels plus a bit of nuclear energy.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Renewables now account for the bulk of the growth in electricity generation, whatever their opponents believe.

    Their wordsthere are many people who still refuse to believe that renewables can be practical even as renewables keep growing around the world, in fact accounting for the bulk of growth in electricity generation
    Interesting